Intel To Launch 8th Gen Core Processors August 21st

When it rains, it poors. Intel posted on its media website that they will launch their 8th Gen Core Processors August 21st. That would be the coffee lake generation with 4 and six core processors.

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#5460703 Posted on: 08/08/2017 06:01 PM
So fast tracking Coffee Lake by 6 months eh, that can only go down a treat can't it. I mean it's not like X299 was a total mess and none of Intel's current line are worth buying to get a fire under the Intel PR team to force more early releases...

#5460716 Posted on: 08/08/2017 06:28 PM
But they need same or low prices than AMD ryzen i guess but that will not happen at least not this year..

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#5460723 Posted on: 08/08/2017 06:38 PM
So fast tracking Coffee Lake by 6 months eh, that can only go down a treat can't it. I mean it's not like X299 was a total mess and none of Intel's current line are worth buying to get a fire under the Intel PR team to force more early releases...

They really got rattled by AMD didn't they Yeah, full-on panic mode, LOL. In all my years, I've never seen Intel rattled like this. At this rate, we'll have the 9th gen by October, and the 10th gen by Christmas

Not that it matters at this point, at least with me. They lost me as a customer earlier this year, and have done nothing to win me back.

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#5460726 Posted on: 08/08/2017 06:43 PM
Two desktop microarchitectures in the same year. On top of that, they require a new motherboard to support Coffee (+milk) Lake. Three if you count the HEDT X299

I jumped on the AMD train from Haswell. I don't think I'll be going back anytime soon. Especially with Zen2 and Zen3 being able to use the AM4 socket and X370 chipset for a few years ahead.

They lost me as a customer earlier this year, and have done nothing to win me back.

They lost me as a potential customer when they told Coffee Lake needs a whole new mobo/chipset.

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#5460750 Posted on: 08/08/2017 07:37 PM

For any foreseeable future, Intel won't get a penny from me.

Same same sameeeee. It'd have to be some insane performance advantage per dollar for me to buy an Intel CPU again. And that's coming from someone who relies extremely heavily on single core performance.

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#5460751 Posted on: 08/08/2017 07:42 PM

I'm sure the i5 8xxxk will do that, costing more than the R7 1700 does and doing less work.

I don't see an i5 costing more than $250. R7 1700 is $330.

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#5460775 Posted on: 08/08/2017 08:42 PM
The year i finally decided to replace my Q9550 is the year Intel decides to release 3 new CPU lines in the same year... I have no luck :\